Leah Gary

February 15, 2019
Leah Gary is the President and CEO of the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously she was the Vice President for Program and Evaluation at the Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Gary was vice president for Community Health, Workforce Development and the Northeast Ohio Trauma Foundation at the Center for Health Affairs where Read More

Lee Draper

February 15, 2019
Lee Draper is president at Draper Consulting Group. She has held multiple management positions at various foundations, such as the Ahmanson Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation and the California Community Foundation.  Read More

Leonor Alfonso

February 15, 2019
Leonor Alfonso is senior program specialist at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. GEO is a diverse community of more than 450 grantmakers working to reshape the way philanthropy operates. We are committed to advancing smarter grantmaking practices that enable nonprofits to grow stronger and achieve better results. Leonor plays a key role in GEO’s publishing and peer learning work, and leads other Read More

Leslie Pine

February 15, 2019
Leslie Pine has been the principal architect of TPI’s creative approach to program design and strategy, managing TPI’s program staff in the research, design, implementation, and evaluation of a wide range of innovative philanthropic strategies and initiatives. This work has transformed the concept of strategic philanthropy into high-impact philanthropic action, helping funders and corporations develop new and more effective approaches Read More

Larry Parachini

February 15, 2019
Larry Parachini is a consultant based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, and author of the Community Organizing Toolbox. Read More

Laura Fink

February 15, 2019
Laura Fink is the Director of Development & Professional Advisor Relations at the Akron Community Foundation. Laura meets with potential fundholders to discover their philanthropic passions and show them how they can do great things through the community foundation. She also leads the Professional Advisor Council made up of wealth managers, trust officers, attorneys and accountants to create giving opportunities that are simple and Read More

Laura McCargar

February 15, 2019
Laura McCargar was appointed as President of the Perrin Family Foundation (PFF) in June of 2016. Laura joined the foundation in 2011 as a Program Officer, where she played a central role in designing the foundation’s youth-led social change grantmaking and the oversaw the development and implementation of capacity building initiatives designed to strengthen, promote and expand youth organizing across Read More

Laura Winter

February 15, 2019
Laura Winter previously served as Vice President for Donor Relations at The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF), and brings 27 years of nonprofit leadership and donor relationship experience to her current role of Donor Relations Consultant at OCF. She has deep knowledge of working across generations and with families to create and celebrate legacies in philanthropy. Laura enjoys working alongside her Read More

Lauren Amos

February 15, 2019
Lauren A. Amos is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and passionate art collector. Lauren is the founder of Wish, a Little Five Points retail experience providing fashion offerings of street culture to high fashion for Atlanta’s clientele.   Since 2003, Wish has emerged as “a sophisticated purveyor of the world’s most cutting-edge labels” and has been featured regularly in the national media. Originally Read More

Laily Pirbhai

February 15, 2019
Laily Pirbhai is a trusted philanthropic advisor. Prior to starting her consulting practice, Laily spent more than a decade working at the Calgary Foundation, likening her role to a “philanthropic advisor” in the community. Under Laily’s leadership, effective donor engagement at the Foundation means starting a philanthropic conversation with the family’s “why”. Understanding a donor’s charitable motivations and objectives through Read More